And unless these old brittle structures are willing to make the necessary changes, the result will be social spillage‹protests, disturbances, apathy, dropouts, a lack of financial support from the community, and a voting with the feet as parents take their children elsewhere to private schools.

This is not to imply that all cultural contributions are of equal value and social worth, or that all should be tolerated. Some cultural practices are better than others for the overall betterment of society. These cultural expressions and contributions that differ from those of the dominant group insociety are usually only acknowledged when there is an economic market for them, such as music for African American, native Indian dances for tourism or Mexican cuisine. When the business sector wants our money, the advertising industry pictures people ofcolor in a positive light

Respect and recognition are not the same

tertiaryeducation.

Sometimeswearewrong,

Incontemporaryconstructivistpsychology,thisprocessiscalledthe‘co-constructionofreality*

rhythmicand-tnelodicgroupings,

welistenandcategorizeaccording toaccentswehaveheardbefore

thechangeprobablyhappens-beforeweareawareofitandprobablycouldn’thappenifwewere*.

ithastoberecognizedthatstandardsthathaveevolved inthebroadcastindustryhavetheirrootsinlanguagevarietiesthatalreadyexistindistinctsocialgroupsandtheirinstitutions

Butthe constructofaccent,likeso manyother things,isrelative.

devoidofanydistinguishingcharacteristicsthatsetitapartfromthespeechofthosearoundthem.

Themethodofhumancommunication,eitherspokenorwritten[orsigned],consistingoftheuseofwordsinastructuredandconventionalway.